Wednesday, 7 March 2012

The Classics Club

Jillian of A Room of One’s Own is hosting a book club, named The Classics Club.
The idea is for individual readers to set a goal to read a certain
number of classics over a certain period of time (say, 50 classics over
a period of five years). The club is intended to be very casual–pick
your own list, no stress, no major requirements, etc.–and it sounds like
a lot of fun.

My goal is to read the following fifty classics over the next five
years and I think I can succeed because I usually read around fifty books a year. Some of the books on
the list will be re-reads for me, but, I forget a lot of them so I'm happy to re-read.

29 comments:

Nice! I might have to be a part of this. I was part of a Classic Books reading club for a while last year, but it died out. I've read a fair few classics in the last few years (considering I hadn't really read any before that), but I have so many more on my TBR shelf!

I've read almost all of these during my English Literature MA studies at college. Can't stand Austen, but Hardy, Fitzgerald and Scott were nice at some points. I was always surprised how Americans never include French, Russian, German.... books when talking about classics even though those are light years above in quality and depth.